HORTICULTURAL 



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ADDRESSES, PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS 



IN THE JOINT CONVENTION, 



AT THE AIJOTUAL MEETING, . 

 Held at Madison, Feb. 1-4, 1SS1. 



THE MAINTENANCE OF OUR WOODLANDS. 



By Franklin B. Houon, U. S. Commissioner of Forestry, Washington, 



D. C. '. 



The thoughts we are to present have reference to a subject that 

 more especially concerns the owners of land, and artisans work- 

 ing in wood. We might properly extend the lists by including 

 those who depend upon the land and its increase for their sub- 

 sistence, and those supplied by the artisans above name J, with 

 the structures that they build, and the commodities that they de- 

 liver for our use and comfort, and thus embrace, to greater or less 

 extent, every person in the country — for we can think of no class 

 whatever, among our whole population, both in city and country, 

 that is not interested in the maintenance of an adequate supply of 

 forest products, in some of the varied forms in which they are 

 delivered to commerce, and that would not feel the inconvenience 

 that would ensue from a failure of these supplies. 



In the common affairs of life, we judge of a man's success, when 

 informed of the amount of his capital, and the excess of his in- 

 come above expenses, and speak of one who is living much be- 

 yond his receipts, as a man who will sooner or later come to grief ; 



1 Read by the secretary in the absence of the author. 



